According to new data released by Scamwatch Australia, Australians lost $2,144,311 to investment scams in January 2020, leading the way in all types of scams. Australians lost more than $61.6 million in fraudulent investment schemes in 2019. This is a sharp rise from the $38.8 million in such losses reported in the same period in 2018.

Not only in Australia, in China, and even around the world, investment fraud is on the rise and has become a major disaster area. The tentacles of criminals have been involved in securities, insurance, futures and other fields, they often use the weakness of human nature, design a variety of routines, to deceive ordinary people.

For investors, the profitability, liquidity, and security of financial products must be understood and familiar with, but before that, how to identify fraud companies is the first lesson of investment introduction. In recent years, the domestic means of fraud is also constantly refurbished, criminals use people's enthusiasm for investment transactions and do not understand, under the cloak of "trading", designed a series of fraud traps called "trading investment", investors must be vigilant!

So, how to identify the network "trading" fraud? First of all, you need to understand how "trading" scams work. Generally speaking, there are seven major false scams:

First, the black platform claims to have obtained overseas regulatory qualifications, fabricates a foreign background, and emphasizes the platform's compliance and authority;

Second, claiming to be taken care of by professional operators, timely stop losses, emphasize high returns, fabricate the myth of "pie in the sky" and "overnight millionaire", and lure investors with high returns through excessive profits;

Third, after using small profits to lure investors to invest in the third platform, investors will begin to gain some profits and gain the trust of the victim. At the same time, the use of relatives, acquaintances and other relations to introduce others to open an account and speculate in foreign exchange, from which the commission is drawn, the formation of people to pull people development line;

(4) In the name of the investment company's financial platform, with an industrial and commercial business license, in fact, there is no qualification to operate trading business;

The recipient of the funds is often not the platform company, and the destination of the remitted funds is unknown, mostly into private accounts;

Sixth, the network "speculation" will also use formal trading software, in fact, trading as a gimmick of virtual trading, artificial development of gambling trading rules, "burst", "roll money run away" events occur, investors have lost their money.

7, through QQ groups, wechat and other promotion to invite victims to the false platform to do trading, with small investment and big return to let the victims taste the first taste of sweetness, and continue to lure investors to increase investment. After the success of the fraud, falsely claiming that the "account is abnormal" and "warehouse explosion" have made investors lose their money, not only that, but once some wechat groups are successfully dissolved, they disappear immediately.

No matter how the lawless fraud is renovated, as an investor, you must remember one thing: not greedy, not impulsive, calm thinking, no matter how the other party touts themselves, you must do your best to review the investment platform, and you must have your own judgment! Remember, anyone who promises high returns is a liar.

Many people do not know much about the currency market, and there are so many monetary regulators, not every investor can query the authenticity of each regulatory information. Professional things to professional people to do, find a professional query platform can save time and worry.

For some very new platforms, if the system can not be queried, you can also submit a consultation in the rights protection center, there will be a professional for you to check and reply for free.

The so-called "sharpening the knife does not mistake the firewood worker", spend a few minutes to verify the platform information before investing, check more, and avoid straying into the deep pit of the black platform, is the biggest responsibility for your investment career. Once found to be cheated, to preserve the relevant evidence, timely report to the local economic investigation brigade, while I submit an exposure, the black platform exposed in the sun, so as not to deceive more people!